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Series
Criterion collection volume 31
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years later leads the boy to tragedy, mystery and wealth.
3) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood.
5) Chasing Amy
Series
Criterion collection volume 75
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
Series
Criterion collection volume 99
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on the Rolling Stones' 1969 American concert tour and a concert at Altamont Speedway where security guards killed an audience member. Includes appearances by Ike and Tina Turner, Jefferson Airplane, and the Flying Burrito Brothers.
7) Hamlet
Series
Criterion collection volume 82
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
The classic version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, the towering tragedy of the Danish prince who feigns madness to trap his father's murderer.
8) Kwaidan
Series
Criterion collection volume 90
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
日本語
Description
Consists of four stories of the supernatural based on Japanese folk material. In The black hair, a poor young samurai leaves his first wife to marry a rich woman. When he is unhappy in his second marriage, he returns to his first wife, who at first appears unchanged from when he last saw her. In The woman of the snow, a woodcutter is spared by a mysterious ghost-like woman in the snow, but must promise never to tell anyone what he has seen. In Hoichi,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 94
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A headstrong young woman travels to the Scottish Hebrides to marry a rich industrialist. On the way, she meets a young naval officer and realizes that some things are more important than money.
10) The lady Eve
Series
Criterion collection volume 103
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A conniving father and daughter meet up with the heir to a brewery fortune-- a wealthy but naïve snake enthusiast-- and attempt to bamboozle him at a cruise ship card table. Their plan is quickly abandoned when the daughter falls in love with their prey. But when the heir gets wise to her gold-digging ways, she must plot to re-conquer his heart.
11) My man Godfrey
Series
Criterion collection volume 114
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A zany millionaire family invites a tramp to be their butler and find that he is richer than they are.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
13) The 39 steps
Series
Criterion collection volume 56
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Follows the escapades of Richard Hanney, who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors.
Series
Criterion collection volume 137
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A beautiful woman with a tainted past is enlisted by American agent Devlin to spy on a ring of Nazis in post-war Rio. Her espionage work becomes life-threatening after she marries the most debonair of the Nazi ring, Alex. Only Devlin can rescue her, but to do so he must face his role in her desperate situation and acknowledge that he's loved her all along.
15) All that jazz
Series
Criterion collection volume 724
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gifted director and choreographer Joe Gideon has an exhausting work schedule-- mounting a Broadway production by day and editing his latest movie by night. His routine of amphetamines, booze, and sex are putting his health at serious risk. Based on the life of choreographer Bob Fosse.
Series
Criterion collection volume 202
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
An American housewife (Jennifer Jones) vacationing in Italy reluctantly decides to put an end to her brief affair with an Italian academic (Montgomery Clift). She flees to Rome's Stazione Termini, where she bids him farewell, but he begs her to stay. The film's plot is simple; its production was not. The troubled collaboration between director Vittorio De Sica and producer David O. Selznick resulted in two cuts of the same film. De Sica's version,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 3
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A yound woman on a train, enroute back to England from Switzerland, meets a charming older lady who promptly disappears. The other passengers deny ever having seen her, leading the young woman into a complex web of mystery and high adventure.
Series
Criterion collection volume 178
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
Swedish
Description
Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
19) Naked lunch
Series
Criterion collection volume 220
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Part-time pest-control man and full-time drug addict Bill Lee (Weller) seeks escape from his troubled existence in 1953 New York and flees to Interzone (a hallucinatory version of Tangiers) where reality and fantasy have merged. It's a strange, surreal landscape inhabited by mugwumps, half-alien, half-insect creatures, man-sized centipedes, carnivorous typewriters and bizarre humans. Compelled to make sense of this alien territory, he writes a book...
20) Rebecca
Series
Criterion collection volume 135
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
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